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A brief history of Project RAND and its developing relationship with the U.S. Air Force. Project RAND began at Douglas Aircraft in 1946. In 1948 The Rand Corporation, a private nonprofit research corporation, was formed. The arrangement with the Air Force is formalized in Air Force Regulation 20-9: to assist the Air Force in improving its efficiency and effectiveness; Project RAND represents a continuing investment by the Air Force in objective research and analysis; RAND is to maintain both a technical and nontechnical capability in missions, organization, threats, strategy, tactics, operations, technology and resource management. The Project RAND research effort is divided into 5 programs: (1) strategic program, (2) general forces program, (3) logistics program, (4) manpower personnel and training program, (5) acquisition program. A recent RAND project, the Computer Resource Management Study, is described in detail to illustrate the functioning of RAND as an "inside-outsider" — an objective outsider able to effectively interface with the Air Force as needed. (Presented at Air Force Institute of Technology, May 1976.)
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